A novel teaches us life lessons in a way that no self-help book can match. By seeing a chatacter live through an experience, we're given access to many different lives and reactions to events. We look at how this is shown in John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany and Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Watch a video segment and answer contextual questions
• Explore how novels and stories can teach readers important lessons about life
• Research an historical figure and write a short description of their life
• Build reading and listening comprehension skills